Public Guest Lecture
On the role of psychologists in contexts of conflict, violence and crisis
Professor Brandon Hamber
International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE), Ulster University, Northern Ireland
15.10.2024, 10:00-11.30 h
At the
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Berlin,
Department Psychologie,
Columbiadamm 10, Turm 9, 12101 Berlin
Lecture and discussion in English language.
Professor Brandon Hamber is John Hume & Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace based at the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) at Ulster University, Norther Ireland. He is a Visting Professor at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is also a member of the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University.
He was born in South Africa and currently lives in Belfast. In South Africa he trained as a Clinical Psychologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and holds a Ph.D. from the Ulster University. Prior to moving to Northern Ireland, he coordinated the Transition and Reconciliation Unit at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg and the Centre’s work focusing on the Sotuh African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.